FreshLab wrote:yo peeps!
i'm just about to get me a mpc (500 that is) and for that i want to hold it down and go out diggin!
and as you may notice (keep the topics name in mind) i am absolutely new to this digging game.
i have no digging skills yet, i just bought me the vinyls that sounded good for me but not with beat making ambitions in mind. so it was not real digging, just buying until now.
if you got any tips for me, id really appreciate that.
just what to keep my eyes on, how to get smooth started in the digging scene.
please keep in mind: just digging and sampling / beat making is new territory for me. i'm not a complete new one on the hip hop scene.
hope ya'll know what i mean. 
each one teach one
peace
Your plan should be that you are in Australia, which apparently has amazing record spots. You are in luck friend. My advice with digging is this...
Buy a portable turntable. You will save tons of money in the long run and learn about records that you don't buy even. Also, you get to listen to music.
Digging is just like beat making. Its a skill and takes practice. That being said... don't be afraid to buy some shitty albums that have no samples on them (even though you think they do, etc). When I first started I would buy stuff and be like, "Yo, this is hot" and get home... and the beat would sound so lame.... What was happening was the song were dope, etc... they just didn't turn out to be great samples for the sound I had in my head.
PRACTICE.
